Today I have accomplished quite a lot, first I went on a lovely walk in the snow with Rocky my Jack Russell, I got really inspired by a fungus of some kind I saw on a tree, it was super vibrant and stuck right out against the white snow in the wooded area I was walking in. When I got home, I made a strong coffee and decided to put some of the clay I had hanging up in a pillowcase after levigating it last week on some plaster bats to dry it out faster to make it workable. I’m going to make some pots, primitive sort of pastels and paint from this batch of clay.
sketchbook I made today
After lunch I made a couple of smalls sketchbooks with some cartridge paper and churned out a few fast drawings, focusing on earthy and oxide colours with watercolour paint and homemade charcoal. I then made a cardboard mould and varnished it ready to pour some plaster in to make a plaster slip casting mould that I’ll be able to make small vessels to hold colours I mix. All of my practice revolves around the materials I use, the process of making things from scratch feeds into my drawings and paintings, I like to illustrate processes using both very obvious drawings/diagrams and also more stylised/abstracted paintings that tend to evolve into fully abstract paintings focusing on the paint itself and the qualities of it. I’m going to try and write an update like this everyday weather anyone reads it or not. 26/01/2021
fun guy I saw on my walk
a mould to make a mould out of plaster to slip cast small vessels to store colours and stuff